Prepare your business | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Prepared

Is your business emergency ready?

It doesn’t matter how big or small your business is, emergencies can happen that can have a devastating impact on your whole operation.

Emergencies can affect every area of your business - your staff, your customers and even your supply chains. Loss of utilities and transport emergencies can prevent day-to-day operations that you normally take for granted.

Disruption can come in many forms from fire to flooding, evacuations, to pandemics, storm damage to cyber attacks. Emergencies happen when you least expect them but you can plan in advance to be better prepared.

Taking time to plan for emergencies and preparing your staff and business can save you time and money if something does happen.

Business information and advice

There are some great websites out there with really good advice about what you can do to prepare your business:

Preparing for Emergencies Guide

How would you cope if there was a major power outage? How could you ensure your organisation could still function? Do you have a plan in place to prepare?

What would you do if your business became the target of a cyber attack? Where would you operate from if you had to evacuate your premises because of a fire or flooding?

Major disruption can prove costly for any organisation and particularly many small or medium sized organisations who may struggle to recover from an emergency.

The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Local Resilience Forum (CPLRF) brings together blue light emergency services, local authorities, the Environment Agency, public health organisations, military, government agencies, transport, utilities along with voluntary and faith organisations to plan, prepare for and respond to such emergencies.

Our handy guide outlines some simple steps you can take to protect your organisation or business and more widely to help your general day to day operations.

Preparing your business

Business information and advice